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Q: bootcamp partition renamed untitled after booting in MacOS

Can anybody please help me ?

 

I had succesfully installed Windows 10 on my Macbook Pro and ran Windows already several weeks smoothly.

Unfortunately I did not make a backup of my windows files yet.

 

Today when I booted to El Capitan to connect my iPad to iTunes Windows gave me a message that it needed repair when I tried to reboot to the bootcamp Windows version.

It did not succeed in repairing and only gave my an advanced options menu.

I booted back into MacOS to find that the windows partition was renamed to 'Untitled' and that no files were visible in Finder.

 

I than ran Disk Utility and selected First Aid on this partition, I thought this was read only to check for disk errors.

Now when booting from Windows it says no operation system available and Disk Utility shows 496 GB empty space on this partition !

 

I hope not all my files are lost !!

What can I do to repair the bootcamp partition ? I tried to install setup bootcamp files on USB but cannot boot from USB (does not show the USB drive)

 

thank you !

 

Olivier

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), Bootcamp Windows 10

Posted on Apr 5, 2016 11:34 AM

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  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Apr 5, 2016 11:37 AM in response to ozeegers
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    Apr 5, 2016 11:37 AM in response to ozeegers

    Windows issues are best dealt with by Microsoft.

  • by ozeegers,

    ozeegers ozeegers Apr 5, 2016 11:41 AM in response to ozeegers
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    Apr 5, 2016 11:41 AM in response to ozeegers

    output diskutil list:

     

    /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            275.6 GB   disk0s2

       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

       4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         473.6 GB   disk0s4

    /dev/disk1 (external, physical):

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *4.1 GB     disk1

       1:             Windows_FAT_32 USB20FD                 4.1 GB     disk1s1

  • by ozeegers,

    ozeegers ozeegers Apr 5, 2016 12:00 PM in response to ozeegers
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    Apr 5, 2016 12:00 PM in response to ozeegers

    output of sudo disk /dev/disk0:

     

    Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 sectors]

    Signature: 0xAA55

             Starting       Ending

    #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>

    2: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  538198808] HFS+       

    3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 538608448 -    1269536] Darwin Boot

    *4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 539879424 -  925265920] HPFS/QNX/AUX

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Apr 5, 2016 12:37 PM in response to ozeegers
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    Apr 5, 2016 12:37 PM in response to ozeegers

    If you have Windows Automatic Updates enabled, W10 is notorious for pushing bad driver updates and causes an endless loop of Automatic Recovery. Finder will not read if the file systems is not NTFS or is corrupted.

     

    Can you post the output of

     

    diskutil info disk0s4

    sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C

  • by ozeegers,

    ozeegers ozeegers Apr 5, 2016 1:02 PM in response to Loner T
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    Apr 5, 2016 1:02 PM in response to Loner T

    thank you for your help! don't know if automatic updates were on or not but could be the case !

     

    output of diskutil info disk0s4:

     

       Device Identifier:        disk0s4

       Device Node:              /dev/disk0s4

       Whole:                    No

       Part of Whole:            disk0

       Device / Media Name:      DOS_FAT_32_Untitled_2

     

       Volume Name:            

     

       Mounted:                  Yes

       Mount Point:              /Volumes/Untitled

     

       File System Personality:  MS-DOS FAT32

       Type (Bundle):            msdos

       Name (User Visible):      MS-DOS (FAT32)

     

       Partition Type:           Microsoft Basic Data

       OS Can Be Installed:      No

       Media Type:               Generic

       Protocol:                 SATA

       SMART Status:             Verified

       Volume UUID:              6BC8D745-CF0B-3C20-A441-E03F8C2BDA5C

       Disk / Partition UUID:    A851B772-364F-4398-8BDA-5003608721BC

     

       Total Size:               473.6 GB (473604608000 Bytes) (exactly 925009000 512-Byte-Units)

       Volume Free Space:        473.5 GB (473466404864 Bytes) (exactly 924739072 512-Byte-Units)

       Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

       Allocation Block Size:    32768 Bytes

     

       Read-Only Media:          No

       Read-Only Volume:         No

     

       Device Location:          Internal

       Removable Media:          No

     

       Solid State:              No

     

    output of : sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C

    00000000  eb 58 90 42 53 44 20 20  34 2e 34 00 02 40 20 00  |.X.BSD  4.4..@ .|

    00000010  02 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00  20 00 ff 00 60 e2 2d 20  |........ ...`.- |

    00000020  68 84 22 37 00 b9 01 00  00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00  |h."7............|

    00000030  01 00 06 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|

    00000040  80 00 29 11 1b b1 40 42  4f 4f 54 43 41 4d 50 20  |..)...@BOOTCAMP |

    00000050  20 20 46 41 54 33 32 20  20 20 fa 31 c0 8e d0 bc  |  FAT32   .1....|

    00000060  00 7c fb 8e d8 e8 00 00  5e 83 c6 19 bb 07 00 fc  |.|......^.......|

    00000070  ac 84 c0 74 06 b4 0e cd  10 eb f5 30 e4 cd 16 cd  |...t.......0....|

    00000080  19 0d 0a 4e 6f 6e 2d 73  79 73 74 65 6d 20 64 69  |...Non-system di|

    00000090  73 6b 0d 0a 50 72 65 73  73 20 61 6e 79 20 6b 65  |sk..Press any ke|

    000000a0  79 20 74 6f 20 72 65 62  6f 6f 74 0d 0a 00 00 00  |y to reboot.....|

    000000b0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|

    *

    000001f0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa  |..............U.|

    00000200

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Apr 5, 2016 1:03 PM in response to ozeegers
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    Apr 5, 2016 1:03 PM in response to ozeegers

    What is the year/model of your Mac? Please do not post your serial number.

  • by ozeegers,

    ozeegers ozeegers Apr 5, 2016 1:23 PM in response to Loner T
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    Apr 5, 2016 1:23 PM in response to Loner T

    MacBook Pro 17 inch early 2011

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Apr 5, 2016 1:37 PM in response to ozeegers
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    Apr 5, 2016 1:37 PM in response to ozeegers

    Be aware that 2011 Macs are not officially supported by Apple for W10. Can you post the output of

     

    sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

  • by ozeegers,

    ozeegers ozeegers Apr 6, 2016 12:47 AM in response to Loner T
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    Apr 6, 2016 12:47 AM in response to Loner T

    output sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

     

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=750156374016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1465149168

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

    gpt show: error: bogus map

    gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk0': Undefined error: 0

  • by ozeegers,

    ozeegers ozeegers Apr 6, 2016 1:12 AM in response to Loner T
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    Apr 6, 2016 1:12 AM in response to Loner T

    I was aware that Apple did not support the 2011 models anymore but since everything worked smoothly I was very happy.

    It went wrong when I booted again in MacOS and went back to windows. The macbook booted into windows to my login page, when I entered my password it said that windows needed repair.

    Since there was no option getting further from within the windows interface I went back to OSx and the bootcamp partition was renamed to untitled and marked 4xx Gb MS DOS data. It was only after the distil first aid act that the data began showing as free space i think and that I got the message no operation system when I rebooted.

    Again thanks a lot for your help !

    I hope I can save my bootcamp setup, I will then turn off automatic updates and leave it that way. Oh yeah, and maybe directly run a backup ;-)

    Since I live in Europe it is only morning now here so my answer took some time....

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Apr 6, 2016 5:59 AM in response to ozeegers
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    Apr 6, 2016 5:59 AM in response to ozeegers

    Please download GPT Fdisk from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ so we can fix the GPT error first.

     

    I am 5+ hours behind you in terms of timezone, so no worries. Post when you can.

  • by ozeegers,

    ozeegers ozeegers Apr 6, 2016 6:52 AM in response to Loner T
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    Apr 6, 2016 6:52 AM in response to Loner T

    ok, check got fdisk installed !

    should i run it from terminal ? because I don't see any icon ?

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Apr 6, 2016 8:38 AM in response to ozeegers
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    Apr 6, 2016 8:38 AM in response to ozeegers

    From OSX Terminal, run

     

    sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk0

     

    It should prompt you to choose GPT or MBR. Choose MBR. It will also read back up GPT, which you may need to write. If you want, post the screen you see, and we can decide what options to choose.

  • by ozeegers,

    ozeegers ozeegers Apr 6, 2016 8:46 AM in response to Loner T
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    Apr 6, 2016 8:46 AM in response to Loner T

    ok, this looks like this:

     

    GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1

     

    Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

    partition table automatically reloaded!

    NOTE: Write test failed with error number 1. It will be impossible to save

    changes to this disk's partition table!

    You may need to deactivate System Integrity Protection to use this program. See

    https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-turn-off-the-rootless-in-OS-X-El-Capitan-10-11

    for more information.

     

    Partition table scan:

      MBR: hybrid

      BSD: not present

      APM: not present

      GPT: present

     

    Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.

     

    Command (? for help):

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